Walking Through History
Slap on those walking boots, grab your compass and take a delightful trip through British history. Tony Robinson is your guide in this illuminating history documentary series as he explores some of the UK’s most exquisite and memorable landscapes, exploring the events from the past that took place there. Unearth fascinating tales and meet colorful characters from yesteryear.
- 2013-2015
- 3 seasons
- Dreamscape Media
- Documentary
Slap on those walking boots, grab your compass and take a delightful trip through British history. Tony Robinson is your guide in this illuminating history documentary series as he explores some of the UK’s most exquisite and memorable landscapes, exploring the events from the past that took place there. Unearth fascinating tales and meet colorful characters from yesteryear.
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
Bronte Country
47 mins
Walking between Bronte family places and meeting people knowledgeable about the family. This is a long walk, finishing in Haworth, visiting places from the novels and used in real life by the Bronte family.
Episode 2
Victoria and Albert's Highland Fling
47 mins
During this walk, Royal influences are shown to have turned wild Scotland in to a place to relax. From Victoria and Albert's first visit at Blair Castle to Victoria's widow's remorse. Not much of Royal Deeside is not influenced by the Royal presence. Balmoral is still used by the current Royal family (2015).
Episode 3
The Norman Conquest of Pembrokeshire
46 mins
Pembrokeshire Coastal Path provides a start but the walk soon leaves the route and heads inland. The conquest by Norman barons in to southern Wales is explained.
Episode 4
Nazi Occupation: The Channel Islands
47 mins
On 30th June 1940 a plane full of German soldiers touched down at Guernsey airport. It was the start of 5 years of occupation. The traditional image of the Channel Islands is sun, sea and sandy beaches. But Tony embarks on a 5 day walk to explore the darkest chapter in the Islands' history, which 70 years on is itself becoming a tourist draw. Starting out in Guernsey to uncover memories of the German aerial attack on the port and the invasion itself, Tony voyages to Jersey which is littered with physical reminders of the Nazi presence. Although of little strategic importance, the Islands were of great propaganda value to Hitler. He ordered extraordinarily large fortifications to be built along the vulnerable coastline. Slave labour was imported and today there are still clear memories of the life and times of those slaves. Tony circumnavigates the island following the story of the Occupation - the brutality, the shock, the difficult balance between co-operation and resistance. In 1944 D Day may have taken Allied troops right past the Islands - but the Islanders and the occupying army were left to cope with few supplies, for the best part of another year before Allied troops landed to accept the German surrender.
Episode 5
King John's Ruin: The Peak District
47 mins
The presenter walks over 3 days joining together King John's connections in the Midlands to the Magna Carta.
Episode 6
England's Last Battle: The West Country
47 mins
England's Last Battle - West Country. In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king.